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This is a subpage for [[TAMNAMS]]-related notes, containing various proposals of varying degrees of usefulness and other useful things.

This is a subpage for [[TAMNAMS]]-related notes, containing various proposals of varying degrees of usefulness and other useful things. This also contains some rewrites of sections of the main TAMNAMS page that aren't quite ready to be deployed.

== Sandboxed rewrites ==

=== Reasoning for names ===

See: [[TAMNAMS#Reasoning for the names]]

The goal of TAMNAMS mos names is to choose memorable but aesthetically neutral names.

==== Names for small mosses ====

All names for single-period mosses (mosses of the form xL ys where x and y are coprime) with no more than 5 notes require that some small integer multiple of the period is equal to an octave or a tempered octave, under the reasoning that these mosses are common and broad enough that they may be of interest in non-octave contexts. As such, the names for these mosses are chosen to be extremely general to avoid bias and to avoid being too flavorful, and to allow these names to be reused for such non-octave contexts.

The names of monowood and biwood, for 1L 1s and 2L 2s respectively, requires that an equivalence interval be an octave, whereas the name trivial, also referring to 1L 1s, is equave-agnostic and may be used for non-octave contexts.

==== Names for multi-period mosses ====

Multi-period mosses (mosses of the form xL ys where x and y have a greatest common factor of 2 or greater) are given unique names that do not depend on the name of a smaller, octave-specific mos. The inclusion of such mos names was for completeness, which prompted reconsiderations on how these mosses were named. These mosses were formerly named using names that were octave-specific, producing former names such as "antidimanic" and "dipentic".

==== Mos names based on a temperament ====

All names ending in -oid refer to an exotemperament which, when including extreme tunings, covers the entire range of the corresponding octave-period mos, such that many edos with simple step ratios for that mos will correspond to valid tunings, if not by patent val, then with a small number of warts.

Former names like "orwelloid" and "sensoid" were abandoned because the names were too temperament-specific in the sense that even considering extreme tunings didn't cover the whole range of the mos. The remaining temperament-based names have been abstracted or altered heavily, namely "pine", "hyrulic", "jaric", "ekic" and "lemon".

==== Inclusion of 1L ns mosses ====

Mosses of the form 1L ns were originally left unnamed as the range for their generator was too broad and such mosses were considered better analyzed as subsets of its (n+1)L 1s mos. A great example of this is 1L 6s and 7L 1s, a pair of mosses that correspond with porcupine temperament.

Although the tuning range is very unhelpful for knowing what such mosses will sound like, it is nonetheless useful for describing structure in situations where one does not want to use the mathematical name of 1L ns, especially given that in such situations the tuning will likely be specified somewhere already, hence the inclusion of these mos names.

This inclusion also affected the names of multi-period mosses. Jaric and taric specifically were chosen over bipedal and bimanual because of this, and to a lesser extent, lemon and lime were chosen over antibipentic and bipentic respectively (and for consistency with that their parent MOSS, 4L2s, is named citric).

==== Mos names with the anti- or an- prefix ====

The distinction between using the prefixes "anti-" vs "an-" for reversing the number of large vs. small steps is also not as trivial as it may sound. In the case of mosses with six or more notes, as the period is always an octave, there is a very large tuning range for the 1L ns mosses (hence their original omission), but the "anti-" prefix shows that what is significant is that it has the opposite structure to the corresponding nL 1s mos while pointing out the resulting ambiguity of range. In the case of mosses with five or fewer notes, as the period is not known and therefore could be very small, this is not as much of a concern as fuller specification is likely required anyway, especially in the case of larger periods, so the name should not be tediously long as the name refers to a very simple mos pattern, and for related reasons, the name shouldn't give as much of a sense of one 'orientation' of the structure being more 'primary' than the other, while with mosses with more than five notes, this suggestion of sense is very much intended, because it will almost always make more sense to talk about the (n+1)L 1s child mos of whatever 1L ns mos you want to speak of.

==== The 10-note limit ====

TAMNAMS only names mosses up to 10 notes. As a result, the names of mosses with 11 and 12 notes were abandoned, such as kleistonic, suprasmitonic, m-chromatic, and p-chromatic.

== Step ratio spectrum visualization ==

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-This is a subpage for [[TAMNAMS]]-related notes, containing various proposals of varying degrees of usefulness and other useful things.
+This is a subpage for [[TAMNAMS]]-related notes, containing various proposals of varying degrees of usefulness and other useful things. This also contains some rewrites of sections of the main TAMNAMS page that aren't quite ready to be deployed.
+== Sandboxed rewrites ==
+=== Reasoning for names ===
+See: [[TAMNAMS#Reasoning for the names]]
+The goal of TAMNAMS mos names is to choose memorable but aesthetically neutral names.
+==== Names for small mosses ====
+All names for single-period mosses (mosses of the form xL ys where x and y are coprime) with no more than 5 notes require that some small integer multiple of the period is equal to an octave or a tempered octave, under the reasoning that these mosses are common and broad enough that they may be of interest in non-octave contexts. As such, the names for these mosses are chosen to be extremely general to avoid bias and to avoid being too flavorful, and to allow these names to be reused for such non-octave contexts.
+The names of monowood and biwood, for 1L 1s and 2L 2s respectively, requires that an equivalence interval be an octave, whereas the name trivial, also referring to 1L 1s, is equave-agnostic and may be used for non-octave contexts.
+==== Names for multi-period mosses ====
+Multi-period mosses (mosses of the form xL ys where x and y have a greatest common factor of 2 or greater) are given unique names that do not depend on the name of a smaller, octave-specific mos. The inclusion of such mos names was for completeness, which prompted reconsiderations on how these mosses were named. These mosses were formerly named using names that were octave-specific, producing former names such as "antidimanic" and "dipentic".
+==== Mos names based on a temperament ====
+All names ending in -oid refer to an exotemperament which, when including extreme tunings, covers the entire range of the corresponding octave-period mos, such that many edos with simple step ratios for that mos will correspond to valid tunings, if not by patent val, then with a small number of warts.
+Former names like "orwelloid" and "sensoid" were abandoned because the names were too temperament-specific in the sense that even considering extreme tunings didn't cover the whole range of the mos. The remaining temperament-based names have been abstracted or altered heavily, namely "pine", "hyrulic", "jaric", "ekic" and "lemon".
+==== Inclusion of 1L ns mosses ====
+Mosses of the form 1L ns were originally left unnamed as the range for their generator was too broad and such mosses were considered better analyzed as subsets of its (n+1)L 1s mos. A great example of this is 1L 6s and 7L 1s, a pair of mosses that correspond with porcupine temperament.
+Although the tuning range is very unhelpful for knowing what such mosses will sound like, it is nonetheless useful for describing structure in situations where one does not want to use the mathematical name of 1L ns, especially given that in such situations the tuning will likely be specified somewhere already, hence the inclusion of these mos names.
+This inclusion also affected the names of multi-period mosses. Jaric and taric specifically were chosen over bipedal and bimanual because of this, and to a lesser extent, lemon and lime were chosen over antibipentic and bipentic respectively (and for consistency with that their parent MOSS, 4L2s, is named citric).
+==== Mos names with the anti- or an- prefix ====
+The distinction between using the prefixes "anti-" vs "an-" for reversing the number of large vs. small steps is also not as trivial as it may sound. In the case of mosses with six or more notes, as the period is always an octave, there is a very large tuning range for the 1L ns mosses (hence their original omission), but the "anti-" prefix shows that what is significant is that it has the opposite structure to the corresponding nL 1s mos while pointing out the resulting ambiguity of range. In the case of mosses with five or fewer notes, as the period is not known and therefore could be very small, this is not as much of a concern as fuller specification is likely required anyway, especially in the case of larger periods, so the name should not be tediously long as the name refers to a very simple mos pattern, and for related reasons, the name shouldn't give as much of a sense of one 'orientation' of the structure being more 'primary' than the other, while with mosses with more than five notes, this suggestion of sense is very much intended, because it will almost always make more sense to talk about the (n+1)L 1s child mos of whatever 1L ns mos you want to speak of.
+==== The 10-note limit ====
+TAMNAMS only names mosses up to 10 notes. As a result, the names of mosses with 11 and 12 notes were abandoned, such as kleistonic, suprasmitonic, m-chromatic, and p-chromatic.
 == Step ratio spectrum visualization ==